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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
I wonder if "Antenna TV" will show up here in northern Ohio any time soon, as a subchannel of one of the network stations. THIStv is on a subchannel of Cleveland's MyTV affiliate (every weekend the station shows a movie from THIS), but to date there is nothing else on the cable here having to do with old TV programming (meaning no RTV or RTN anywhere near here -- the nearest RTN affiliate is 120 miles away, and not carried on the cable in my area).
I guess that leaves me only one choice for retro TV programming -- Netflix. I've had a subscription to it for five years and have enjoyed it (I'm on the 3-DVD out a month unlimited plan), but I just read an article this afternoon on the Internet (on ZDNet's website, IIRC) that Netflix is eventually going to phase out DVDs in favor of streaming video. Ordinarily that wouldn't bother me, but I live on a fixed income (disability) and cannot afford the fancy new equipment I'm sure I would need to continue receiving Netflix's movies over the Internet. My current TV is 11 years old and still works every bit as well as when it was new; my DVD player is only about two years old and also continues to operate quite well. What are people such as myself supposed to do when (not if) Netflix finally stops its DVD rental service because it has gone to 100-percent streaming video over the Internet? There are still plenty of folks around here, and across the United States as well, with DVD players and active subscriptions to Netflix; if the DVD rentals end, it will leave a lot of these people with DVD players they can't use. Many people today have Blu-ray players that cost an arm and a leg, compared to DVD players; these folks won't be too happy, either, when they find out that BR disc rentals are no longer available from Netflix, which is one of only two or three DVD rental services still in operation in the US.
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Antenna TV will be carried in the Cleveland area on channel 8.2 beginning on January 1, 2011 and it will be carried on Time Warner Cable beginning on January 2.
I read somewhere that Antenna's programming on January 1 will start with a marathon of the Three Stooges followed by a marathon of the Benny Hill Show.